Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Fly People Fly

Maybe when you think of The Scorpions you think of "Rock Me Like a Hurricane," balding krauts, and striped spandex moose knuckle. Maybe you just fell out of your momma's ass too. Maybe you are too young and green to know that before all that dumb shit, The Scorpions were one of the coolest hard rock bands of the '70s. Maybe you don't even know about how they had on their team a foppish Teutonic guitarbarian by the name of Uli Roth who was just a bit fucking loony, but had style and licks and chops for days. Maybe you don't know that this album, Fly To The Rainbow (along with In Trance) is just overflowing with outstanding songs. Maybe nobody ever told you how precious and deep Fly To The Rainbow truly is, and that saddens me.

There's the whole UFO connection with Michael Schenker on Lonesome Crow. I don't think he made another appearence until 79 on Lovedrive but you can definitely hear the similarities in the bands. But yeah, oddly enough the best Scorps album don't have MS. Hoping to catch Uli Roth at BB Kings in NY. Thanks, as always

I love this record. I love "In Trance" even more though. It is one of my all time favorite records - Uli's solos are just amazing. I can't imagine seeing him at Annies! That is going to be insane! You must let us know who the super secret guest was. Oh - and LAIBACH? goddam!

as i was watching tv in the evening i fell upon the "wind of change" video.i couldn't stop thinking what a shame it is that Scorpions will forever be known for this boring piece of shit instead of their glorious 70's albums.then i open my computer and you have posted a Scorpions album from this exact period!and your words are definitely spot on.

About a month ago, "Speedy's Coming" played on the radio while I was driving. What a wonderful song and memory. Always loved that one. Right now, I'm on the really spacy jam in the second half of "Drifting Sun," absolutely wonderful!

this is awesome,my first into to scorpions was 'virgin killers'(bought on title alone mind you)funny u should post this becouse i just heard 'The Sails Of Charon' not too long ago and did a search for taken by force, and dl'd tokyo tapes shortly thereafterso thanks again

this 'super secret' opening act is killing mea friend of mine knows and he aint givin it up

I gotta say, 'cause it just gots to be said; while '70's Scorps fuckin rule, Wind of change and Still loving you can't be denied. Rock solid scorching hits that kick the shit outta most any other limp-wristed schlock.

Uli was killer. I sat right in front of his Marshall, couldn't make out what his band was doing but that was fine by me. Quite a bit of old Scorps material, guitar wizardy, and some pot food. Afterwards he signed my Scorpions stuff. He was very nice and friendly. When I get my other blogspot up and running I'll do a post about it.

Thanks so much for this, Aesop! I haven't heard this one in full since the summer of '84. A friend of mine tipped me off to it back then. Prior to that I only knew the Scorps circa: "Louffdrive". "Just listen to hees reckowrd..." You got it, Klaus!

Btw, it was great to see ya at Laibach last week. Here's me blog:http://hordesofhesh.blogspot.com/

I don't know how easy this is to remedy, but apparently this file has expired cuz it hasn't been downloaded in the past 60 days (?). I LOVE "in trance" and would like to check this out, but if it's a pain to fix I should probably just buy the thing. thanks for all you do

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